Cycloseris

Cycloseris is a genus of solitary disc corals in the family Fungiidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific. They inhabit the lower reef slopes, and the areas between reefs with soft sediments. They tolerate turbid waters.

Cycloseris

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FungiidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fungiidae

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 85 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 85 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 85 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 85 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 85 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 85 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 85 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 85 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 44 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka140 Mya0 Mya

85 occurrences of Cycloseris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

85 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

18 formations

Era Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENaha — 26.08°N, 127.68°EPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WNuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EBatu Putih Limestone — 0.47°S, 117.12°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°EMiyako-jima — 24.50°N, 125.10°EBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSzukou — 22.00°N, 120.70°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.80°ENias — 1.38°N, 97.30°EPuez — 46.59°N, 11.79°ESmochan — 43.20°N, 24.85°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Cycloseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycloseris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cycloseris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

757 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Cycloseris, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

48 references

Each of the 85 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 36 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cycloseris

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849